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In my experience this happens when 1 or both hinges are misaligned. If the hinges are properly aligned a set of oilite bronze bushings will last a very long time.
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Can't comment on the eye crystals, but have you been checked for Meniere's disease? It is a middle ear deal. Affected my balance and I would get vertigo. Once in the middle of speaking to ~75 people
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Got the motor, motor plate, adjuster, pivots in the cabinet.
And the upper pulley bracket placed. Tomorrow I'll get everything aligned and tightened down.
Looking better than it started out.
And the upper pulley bracket placed. Tomorrow I'll get everything aligned and tightened down.
Looking better than it started out.
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yea, no, this is the crystals. It's being affected by my right inner ear. Sucks that I can't clear this one. Not sure why. Went to the Dr today, and they tested me and confirmed it's BPV.
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When I discovered that the single-phase Dayton motor on my lathe was wired for 240, except for the start circuit, but powered by 120, I had to think about those connections for about three days before rewiring it properly. And I understand single-phase motor wiring for dual-voltage motors. The problem is that a mistake can release the magic smoke that makes it all work, and a replacement would be expensive.
(Also: A South Bend lathe like my 14-1/2 does not run well with a single-phase dual-voltage motor wired for 240 but powered by 120. Each field winding is only seeing 60 volts, and it wouldn't even run on the highest speed belt position. I think it was developing maybe a quarter to half a horsepower at most. The 30 feet of 16-gauge cord plugged into a 120VAC, 20-amp circuit without popping the breaker should have been a hint to the previous owner: the FLA of that motor wired for 120 is 27 amps.)
At least it had that Dayton motor. The motor that came with my lathe when it was sold to Beth Steel's Sparrows Point plant in 1946 was a three-phase motor running at 525VAC, 25Hz, 1425 RPM. I would have struggled with that one.
Rick "Hey, American Rotary, I've got a question for you..." Denney
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I got it too, man. I go months without issue, then wham! It's there for weeks. I've gotten better at rotating it away, but it seems to be a different set of movements every time. It can be pretty spooky depending on what you're doing when it hits. C'est la vie.
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I haven’t done any serious machine projects recently but I have been in the shop and just finished working on this today.
It’s an old (1930’s) radio cabinet that originally belonged to my grandparents and then my mom after that. It was one of the few “luxury” possessions on the farm and was always a focal point for us kids at grandmother’s house. I never actually saw it as a radio — by the time I came around grandfather had died, grandmother had moved into town (with the farmhouse, but that’s a whole other story!) and the radio cabinet had been converted to a kind of display case for her special keepsakes. If we were really lucky and asked nicely she would open the cabinet, maybe….
Anyway, I’ve had it since my mom died and decided I’d clean it up some and do a little better job of the conversion to display case than had been done previously. There was also some very intense damage that had happened to the front moulding when we moved and while the repairs kind of worked they were a little crude. So, facelift time….
The first thing I discovered was this huge area of swollen and disintegrated wood on the floor of the thing. It had been a battery-operated radio (farm remember, no electricity) and I guess the acid from the cells leaked out a little! Well I figured whatever acid was around was probably long since neutralized by now being nearly eighty years later so I just dug out the punky stuff and gave a few good soaks of varnish to seal it up. It’ll be fine, I’m sure, and I’ll put a bit of false floor in to cover it over anyhow.
The previous converter (likely my father) had used ordinary G1S plywood to make a shelf in the lower part so I kind of expanded on that idea and put in four adjustable standards and made two new shelves out of some leftover Lexan I had kicking around. It lets the light through better than plywood so you can see what’s inside easier.
The upper compartment, where the actual radio electronics would have been, provided the most excitement. When I took out my dad’s plywood additions I discovered what was left of the original tags and operating information for the unit. It had been a Westinghouse Super-Heterodyne, Model B-718, with the cabinet portion having been made in Waterloo, Ontario by Snyder’s. I think this same unit may have been sold in the US under the Philco label but I’m not positive.
I haven’t been able to find an example of what that particular model looked like but I knew that I wanted to create a sense of being an old radio again even though it would be purely for suggestion. So I faked-up a pseudo front radio face with a bit of 1/8” acrylic. A little gold paint, a couple of walnut knobs, and it kind of works! I mean, I still want to see inside to look at the contents but I think it does get the radio flavour back. It’s just held in place with four tiny rare earth magnets so it comes off easy enough to access the inside.
After that it was really just touch-ups on the scars and damaged areas enough to make it look not so beat up. Because the cabinet has quite a bit of glazing in the finish most of what I needed to do could be done with artist acrylics and then shellacked over top for protection. You can still see the damage if you look for it but that’s ok, I know the stories behind how it all got there so that’s part of its history for me.
Anyhow, that’s been my efforts for the past couple of weeks. Thanks for looking!
It’s an old (1930’s) radio cabinet that originally belonged to my grandparents and then my mom after that. It was one of the few “luxury” possessions on the farm and was always a focal point for us kids at grandmother’s house. I never actually saw it as a radio — by the time I came around grandfather had died, grandmother had moved into town (with the farmhouse, but that’s a whole other story!) and the radio cabinet had been converted to a kind of display case for her special keepsakes. If we were really lucky and asked nicely she would open the cabinet, maybe….
Anyway, I’ve had it since my mom died and decided I’d clean it up some and do a little better job of the conversion to display case than had been done previously. There was also some very intense damage that had happened to the front moulding when we moved and while the repairs kind of worked they were a little crude. So, facelift time….
The first thing I discovered was this huge area of swollen and disintegrated wood on the floor of the thing. It had been a battery-operated radio (farm remember, no electricity) and I guess the acid from the cells leaked out a little! Well I figured whatever acid was around was probably long since neutralized by now being nearly eighty years later so I just dug out the punky stuff and gave a few good soaks of varnish to seal it up. It’ll be fine, I’m sure, and I’ll put a bit of false floor in to cover it over anyhow.
The previous converter (likely my father) had used ordinary G1S plywood to make a shelf in the lower part so I kind of expanded on that idea and put in four adjustable standards and made two new shelves out of some leftover Lexan I had kicking around. It lets the light through better than plywood so you can see what’s inside easier.
The upper compartment, where the actual radio electronics would have been, provided the most excitement. When I took out my dad’s plywood additions I discovered what was left of the original tags and operating information for the unit. It had been a Westinghouse Super-Heterodyne, Model B-718, with the cabinet portion having been made in Waterloo, Ontario by Snyder’s. I think this same unit may have been sold in the US under the Philco label but I’m not positive.
I haven’t been able to find an example of what that particular model looked like but I knew that I wanted to create a sense of being an old radio again even though it would be purely for suggestion. So I faked-up a pseudo front radio face with a bit of 1/8” acrylic. A little gold paint, a couple of walnut knobs, and it kind of works! I mean, I still want to see inside to look at the contents but I think it does get the radio flavour back. It’s just held in place with four tiny rare earth magnets so it comes off easy enough to access the inside.
After that it was really just touch-ups on the scars and damaged areas enough to make it look not so beat up. Because the cabinet has quite a bit of glazing in the finish most of what I needed to do could be done with artist acrylics and then shellacked over top for protection. You can still see the damage if you look for it but that’s ok, I know the stories behind how it all got there so that’s part of its history for me.
Anyhow, that’s been my efforts for the past couple of weeks. Thanks for looking!
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